Gate-hinge.



PATENTED OCT. 27,1903.

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GATE HINGE.

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UNITED STATES Patented October 27, 1903.

LOUIS F. 'VO'LBERDING, OF DIKE,'IOWA.

GATE-HINGE.

srncrrrca'rron forming part of Letters Patent No. 742,261, dated October 27,1903.

Application filed February 20,1903- Serial No. 1441250. '(N0 model.) 7

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS F. VOLBERDING, a citizen of the United States, residing at Dike, in the county of Grundy and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gate-Hinges, of which the following is a specification.

The objects of my invention are to provide a gate-hinge for the ordinary gate which is so My invention consists in certain details in the construction, arrangement, and combination of the various parts of the device whereby the objects contemplated are attained, as hereinafter more fullylset forth, pointed out in my claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 shows in perspective a complete gate and shows in dotted lines the gate inits raised position. Fig. 2 is a detail perspective of the hinge which is attached to the lower portion of the gate.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, I have used the reference-numerals 10 and 11 to indicate the posts between which my gate is designed to swing. To the post 11 I have attached an ordinary hinge 12, comprising a screw-threaded portion 13, having a loop 14 at one end of it and the nut 15 designed to be screwed upon the other end. Through this loop 14 is a second'loop 15, designed to act with the loop 14 in supporting the upper portion of the gate to which the portion 15 is attached.

the top portion 20. Attached near: the bot-.

tom of the post 11 and extending through it is the screw-threaded supporting-rod 21, hav- The screw-threaded portion 13 is mounted on the post 11, near the top portion ing the screw-threaded portion 22 at one end of it designed to admit over the said screwthreaded portion the nut 23. At the other end of the supporting -rod 21 from the screwthreaded portion is the circular loop 24. This supporting-rod is constructed in this manner so that the nut 23 will be at the side of the post 11. Mounted in the loop 2 1 is the loop 25, having attached to it two parallel rods 26 and 27, said parallel rods being bent clownwardly and substantially at right angles to the body portion of these rods 26 and 27, and at the ends which are away from the loop 25 the lower portion of these extensions 28 and 29 are connected. The'lower portion of the gate is designed to be admitted between the extensions 28 and 29, and the portions 26 and 27 are designed to admit betweenthem the 'rear portion 18 of the gate in such a way that these portions 26 and 27 are slightly above the lower portion 19 of the gate.

Connecting the rods 26 and 27 near that point in each of them where the extensions 28 and 29 are formed is the bolt 30. Said bolt is designed to be placed above the lower portion 19, so that the lower portion 19will move through the opening formed by the extensions 28 and 29, the bolt 30, and the connecting-piece between these extensions 28 and 29.

In practical use the gate will swing as does the ordinary gate on its hinges, and my improved hinge will not prevent the gate swingin g in a perfectly horizontal plane; but the end of the gate may be swung outwardly by sim ply lifting the end of the gate away from the hinges upwardly after it has-been swung a slight distance to one side of the post 10. The rear portion 18 will slide longitudinally from the rods 26 and 27 and the lower portion 19 will slide through the opening which is formed between the extensions 28 and 29, the bolt 30, and the connecting-piece between said extensions 28 and 29. This allows the gate to be swung readily, even though snow has accumulated to some depth around it, as but a small amount of the gate has to come into engagement with the snow.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States therefor, is-- In a device of the class described, the combination of a stationary rod having a loop at tremities, and a bolt mounted between the one end and a screwthreaded portion at its parallel sides.

other end, a nut for said screw-threaded por- I I i r 7 LP tion, a movable member plvoted to the loop 5 OLIT (T 5 of the stationary rod, comprising two parallel \Vitnesses:

sides bent to form a, loop and having the A. F. VOLBEJ LDING,

right-angled extensions connected at their eX- M. A. BU CHAN. 

